Some championships are won in a single defining game; Tech-Lift won its 2026 provincial title by refusing to lose at all. The Tech-Lift Ball Hockey Club swept through the Newfoundland and Labrador Ball Hockey Association’s Tier One men’s provincial championship with a perfect 6-0 record, a flawless run that ended with a 4-2 victory over Crown Cabinets in the final.
The championship game was a measured, back-and-forth affair that Tech-Lift ultimately controlled. Ty Peddigrew opened the scoring, Matteo Rotondi tied the game on a power play, and Andy Knight restored the lead before Peddigrew struck again to provide the insurance goal that sealed it. Behind them, goaltender Clay Ryan turned in the kind of steady final-game performance a perfect record demands, and the club was guided by head coach Donnie Gosse.
Getting to the final required its own resilience. On the tournament’s decisive Sunday, Tech-Lift won twice — first a semifinal against the Gander Raiders in which the team rallied from a late deficit, then the championship match against Crown Cabinets. Coming from behind in an elimination game before turning around to win a title the same day is the sort of test that separates a hot team from a complete one, and Tech-Lift passed both halves.
The roster’s pedigree helps explain the dominance. Many of the players had captured the 2025 provincial title together as members of the U23 Newfoundland Selects, meaning this was not a group learning to win but one extending an established core into a new season. That continuity showed in the perfect record: six games, six wins, and a final decided by disciplined, opportunistic scoring rather than any single burst of luck.
The reward for the provincial crown is a step up in class. Tech-Lift earned the right to represent Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2026 Men’s A National Championship in Calgary in August, where the province’s champions test themselves against the best club sides from across the country. National tournaments are a different order of competition, and a perfect provincial run does not guarantee anything against national-calibre opponents — but it is exactly the platform a team wants heading west.
Ball hockey’s competitive depth in Newfoundland is easy to underestimate from the mainland. The sport draws large numbers of skilled players who grew up on the game, and a Tier One provincial title is a genuine achievement rather than a formality. Tech-Lift’s clean sweep, built on a returning championship core and closed out with a composed final, made the club the standard-bearer for the province in 2026.
A note on details: the exact date and venue of the final were not specified in the available reporting beyond the tournament’s playoff weekend, and no direct player or coach quotes were published in the source coverage. The scores, scorers and roster context above are drawn directly from that reporting.
Sources: NTV · Newfoundland and Labrador Ball Hockey Association
